While Microsoft litigated, Amazon got on with the job of conquering the
entire ebook landscape with apps and its first tablet, a device that despite its flaws has been selling in the sort of numbers most Android tablet makers can only dream of.
But it also leaves
the ebook landscape so complex and confusing that kids today are turning away from ebooks to something simpler.
Writing for the New Yorker, Ken Auletta surveys
the ebook landscape: it's Apple, Amazon, Google, and the book publishers engaged in a poker game for the hearts, minds, and wallets of book buyers.
We have reported last month the Top 10 ebook Best Sellers, which would be a good way to evaluate if self publishing in
the ebook landscape is a good idea.
MG: The lack of a simple way to create semantically correct ebook files underpins your stance that
the ebook landscape is broken, technology-wise at least.
However, it's a version 1.0 offering and if Google stays the course and continually upgrades both the technology and, importantly, its mastery of online ebook selling, it has the potential to be a useful addition to
the ebook landscape and hopefully a counter to Amazon's continuing dominance which shows no sign of diminishing.
By Kat Meyer, Joe Regal September 19, 2012 Join Regal (Zola's CEO) for a guided tour of ZolaBooks, and a discussion about
the ebook landscape - including Zola's open approach, the disintermediative nature of the current dominant ebook retailers, the impact of the DoJ's ruilng on competition in...